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November 21, 2008

What's The "Blackberry Economy?"

Did you have a reality check and it bounced?

Okay, the stock market is dropping like a Las Vegas drunk on New Years Eve. Layoffs abound. The US government is nationalizing the banking system with tens of billions of dollars, the top 3 automakers in the US are begging for bailout money . . .

Need I say more? It’s that time. It’s that tough time. All people have it at one or more times in their lives and so do economies.

Believing makes it so. For those who’ve been laid off or who are witnessing their 401 K’s tanking, their stocks dragging knuckles like a caveman or just plain fear is welling up in anticipation of the media fear circus, there is GOOD NEWS.

The truth is a lie. Oh, it’s the truth as far as the economy, layoffs, etc., go, but it’s a lie if you say it is.

Huh?

First, positive thinking, wishful dreams and hoped for outcomes are, by themselves, useless. Yes, good attitudes are required, but action will be required.

Let’s look at reality check number 1. Everyone is suffering terribly.

Okay, if that’s so, then how is it that on November 21st, the day following a horrific week of stock market downturns, did this happen?

Lines of people throughout the USA began forming in the middle of the night. Many in freezing weather, waiting for the doors to open.

For what? Soup kitchens? New job openings? Government handouts?

No. For the new Blackberry Storm wireless phone. Scuffles started breaking out when some of the stores ran out of phones within an hour of opening!

What?

Okay, so now we have proof. Obviously not everyone is seriously hurting in this downturn.

Maybe we should call this the “Blackberry Economy.” We are so diverse that thousands of people are grasping to be first to buy the latest technology.

So what’s true? What’s true for you might be a better question.

You may have heard this from me before, but think about it; more millionaires were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history!

We are not in a great depression. You might feel it, you might have even lost a job or you fear losing it.

There is a gift that is available to us all, and this is not positive thinking, the gift is that there are new opportunities coming in great abundance. Not just in a downward spiraling economy but especially in a downward spiraling economy!

But, how do you recognize them? How can you create them? How in the world can you benefit and how fast?

Here are the absolute keys to finding what works, or better, what can work for you.

Be an open-minded skeptic - but be open minded.

Rethink your prejudices. Not about people, but about yourself and the world of opportunities and possibilities as they relate to you.

Whenever the potential opportunity or your own “Aha!” idea presents itself. Neither dismiss or accept it right off. Examine each like you would if you were a jeweler looking at a gem, is it real or Zirconium?

If you think everyone is hurting and suffering, check that! No, not everyone is, nor will we all have to go through it. Or, for those who are, they needn't stay there. In fact many will rise far above their previous financial stations in life precisely because of these challenges and that they caused them to think a different way.

The uneducated and naive have made millions in negative economies, so have smart and well educated people.

It is the prejudiced, the negative receivers of universal information who allow themselves to be beaten down and convinced that they are hurting. They suffer from no AHA’s. They are the mentally downtrodden who become the physical and financial wrecks that starts within their own mindsets.

It is time to shift and get off the pot! That pot of misery that the media likes to place us on with the worst of the worst stories. The negative feedback that comes through an endless negative repeating of the already known negative stories of doom and gloom by sad and negative people.

Just remember F.E.A.R.

FirstEvaluateAccording toRisk

Keep an open mind, pray for “AHA’s,” stop prejudging anything. Forget what you were convinced about before and rethink everything!

Do this; remember the future.

The future of you, being where you want to be and beyond. Be in the remembrance that you would have after these accomplishments.

Imagine yourself, overlooking the mountain or ocean scenes from the home you want to have, thinking back, remembering your AHA’s and the time you had getting to this place.

Now is the time. This is the place. You are the one.

Join the “Blackberry Economy!”

Next: How to avoid becoming a victim of opportunity. Or TGTBT - Too Good To Be True?